Evacuated to a house in Dorset from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world.

The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time to the year Five Billion. The sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. But among the alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly spiders?

Rose and the Doctor travel billions of years into the future to witness the end of the earth along with an assortment of aliens. Behind the scenes, special effects and different alien costumes were developed and created, including the last human in existence ? no more than a bit of stretched skin!

The Doctor takes Rose back through time to 1869. In Victorian Cardiff, the dead are walking, and creatures made of gas are on the loose. The time-travellers team up with Charles Dickens to investigate Mr. Sneed, the local undertaker, and his psychic maid Gwyneth. Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth?

The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to 19th century Cardiff where they encounter Charles Dickens and the menacing Gelph. The crew comments on this period episode and the impressive special effects it entailed.

In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. The Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities - and in so doing, learns a harsh lesson in the cruelest warfare of all.

Monday 24 November

Mars, 2059. Bowie Base one. Last recorded message: don't drink the water. don't even touch it. not one drop... Confused? All will be revealed in The Waters of Mars, starring Lindsay Duncan as the Doctor's cleverest and most strong-minded companion yet.

In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. The Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities - and in so doing, learns a harsh lesson in the cruelest warfare of all.